{
  "id": 817072,
  "title": "Rami Malek’s $60 Million Spy-Thriller Flop Is Officially a Streaming Hit on Prime Video",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/rami-maleks-60-million-spy-thriller-flop-is-officially-a-streaming",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-13T23:00:12.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Polygon",
    "slug": "polygon",
    "url": "https://www.polygon.com/prime-video-streaming-august-2026-the-amateur/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Rami Malek's $60 million spy thriller, officially classified as a success on Prime Video, has revealed that winning an Oscar doesn't guarantee a bankable actor status. Despite the $900 million-plus blockbuster success of Bohemian Rhapsody, which earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor, Malek's subsequent movie career has been somewhat inconsistent. He played a James Bond villain in No Time to Die, appeared as a nuclear physicist in Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, and was part of the 1930s murder mystery Amsterdam, which earned $30 million worldwide. His most recent film, Nuremberg, starred alongside Russell Crowe and dealt with World War II, but despite respectable performance figures, it did not translate into a mainstream blockbuster hit.",
  "summary": "Rami Malek’s ‘The Amateur’ is a hit on Prime Video more than a year after the $60 million spy thriller struggled at the box office.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}